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Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Thursday, 6 Mar 1969

Vol. 238 No. 16

Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Rates.

19.

asked the Minister for Local Government the total amount collected in rates in the year ended (a) 31st March, 1956, and (b) 31st March, 1968.

Total rate collection in 1955-56 amounted to £17.746 million. The figure for 1967-68 is estimated at £34.713 million.

Can I take it from the Minister's figures that rates have doubled in the last ten years? The Minister must remember the time when we were promised complete de-rating but he is still blistering and crucifying the people with this taxation. I remember the time when we were told that de-rating was coming. The man in the Park told us that and the rates were only 5/6 in the £ then.

Deputy L'Estrange should realise and perhaps it is only fair to himself that he should be aware of those further figures——

I did not ask for those. The Minister does not have to give something I did not ask for. He is trying to get over this by this propaganda.

Will Deputy L'Estrange restrain himself?

I did not ask for what the Minister was giving.

We have 108 questions and I must ask the Deputy to allow questions to proceed. If he does not, I will have to ask him to leave the House.

Tell the Minister he should not be giving information he was not asked for. The Minister is deliberately delaying the House.

The Deputy does not want to have his ignorance relieved.

John Taylor got after you to make a statement to help the Unionists in the North. You are so friendly with John Taylor in the North that you made that statement.

The Deputy, his forebears and his background would have given far greater success to those in the North than I did.

You made that statement for John Taylor.

The Deputy does not agree with my outlook on the Six Counties?

You have done nothing about it for 30 years.

I am calling Question No. 20.

It is still Cumann na nGaedheal.

The Minister made that statement to help the Unionists in the North and against Captain O'Neill because John Taylor asked him.

If Deputy L'Estrange cannot behave himself I will have to ask him to leave the House.

20.

asked the Minister for Local Government if he will state for each local authority (a) the total amount of rates collected for the year ended (i) 31st March, 1956, and (ii) 31st March, 1968, and (b) the rate in the £1 in (i) 1955-56 and (ii) 1967-68.

The information sought by the Deputy in respect of the year 1955-56 is published in the Local Taxation Returns for that year. The rate in the pound struck by each local authority in 1967-68 was given in reply to Question No. 21 of 1st June, 1967, by the Deputy.

The balance of the information requested is in the form of a tabular statement which, with your permission, a Cheann Comhairle, I propose to circulate with the Official Report.

Following is the statement:

Rate Collection 1967-68

Local Authority

Amount Collected*

County Councils:

£

Carlow

288,880

Cavan

358,298

Clare

484,750

Cork

1,983,540

Donegal

631,606

Dublin

1,930,020

Galway

754,435

Kerry

611,196

Kildare

624,698

Kilkenny

481,472

Laoighis

458,236

Leitrim

159,968

Limerick

803,211

Longford

275,149

Louth

335,154

Mayo

500,009

Meath

723,443

Monaghan

254,660

Offaly

343,358

Roscommon

447,758

Sligo

228,749

Tipperary N.R.

426,929

Tipperary S.R.

584,162

Waterford

508,646

Westmeath

509,874

Wexford

593,590

Wicklow

453,603

County Borough Corporations:

Cork

1,665,356

Dublin

9,764,475

Limerick

651,026

Waterford

363,939

Urban District Councils:

An Uaimh

27,910

Arklow

41,527

Athlone

76,698

Athy

34,440

Ballina

63,297

Ballinasloe

45,339

Birr

30,777

Bray

153,457

Buncrana

31,724

Bundoran

27,478

Carlow

46,133

Carrickmacross

17,242

Carrick-on-Suir

31,602

Cashel

15,900

Castlebar

48,470

Castleblayney

17,136

Cavan

31,404

Ceanannus Mór

13,021

Clonakilty

19,572

Clones

16,332

Clonmel

87,135

Cobh

59,006

Drogheda

136,036

Dundalk

224,744

Dungarvan

46,354

Dún Laoghaire

841,060

Ennis

42,144

Enniscorthy

35,963

Fermoy

32,793

Galway

333,171

Kilkenny

97,280

Killarney

72,803

Kilrush

17,773

Kinsale

16,393

Letterkenny

40,086

Listowel

31,354

Longford

36,469

Macroom

18,539

Mallow

52,143

Midleton

25,445

Monaghan

31,238

Naas

37,994

Nenagh

46,706

New Ross

39,459

Skibbereen

23,106

Sligo

130,927

Templemore

18,235

Thurles

51,623

Tipperary

38,999

Tralee

112,191

Trim

10,913

Tullamore

53,216

Westport

37,407

Wexford

100,625

Wicklow

32,517

Youghal

49,507

*Excludes increases in rents of small dwellings.

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